South Sydney coach Michael Maguire is adamant the rule changes applied to the shoulder charge this year are correct following Jarrod Wallace’s success at the judiciary on Tuesday.

Wallace is free to make his State of Origin debut for Queensland next week after overturning a shoulder charge citing from Gold Coast’s loss to the Warriors on Saturday.

The Titans prop became the fourth player to beat the charge and avoid suspension in five attempts at league central this season, most of whom arguing it was the attacking player who initiated contact.

The NRL attempted to simplify its shoulder charge laws in February this year when they announced a player would be charged if the contact was forceful and he didn’t use his arms.

Maguire, who is part of the NRL competition committee and also had Rabbitohs captain Sam Burgess escape sanction earlier this year, believes the rule alterations have been a success.

“We spent a lot of time talking about that and the way it’s been implemented now, I think it’s quite fair to players’ hearings,” Maguire said on Wednesday.

“I’ve obviously been through one with Sam, and the hearing itself was excellent.

“They were very thorough in how they looked at the shoulder charge and they took what we presented and they presented it in the right way. Obviously we got the result we were after.”

Maguire said the main goal is to have players more aware of instances of the shoulder charge, the most blatant of which have been mostly eradicated from the game in recent years.

“It is a tricky one because of obviously where the game’s been and where it is at the moment. It’s such a short moment in time in a game,” he said.

“It’s such a subtle thing that can just pop up. So for all the players just continually being aware of it, I think that’s the biggest thing.”

Wests Tigers and NSW star Aaron Woods believes the rule changes allowed players more of a chance to argue any charges at the judiciary this year.

“I think he just braced himself. He didn’t really go in with intent to whack with a shoulder charge,” he said of Wallace’s case on Sky Sports Radio.

“There’s a bit of a grey area about it. They tried to change the rule but it’s just the wording of how they put it out there. That’s how players are getting off, aren’t they?”